Job Title: Food Security and Livelihoods Manager
Location: Longechok
Reports to: Program Director
Direct report: FSL Coordinator
Travel: Must be willing and able to spend up to 80% of time in remote and insecure field locations
About RI: Relief International is a leading nonprofit organization working in 20 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach — which we call the RI Way—emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Position Summary:
You will serve as a Program Manager for WFP-funded food assistance programming and lead national staff teams spread across multiple locations and oversee direct implementation of activities in remote and insecure field locations. You will engage in designing and implementing projects advancing RIs’ work in serving the poor and vulnerable. Your management skills and knowledge will ensure that the RI delivers high-quality programming and continuously works towards improving the impact of its programming. You will ensure RIs’ food assistance programming complement and integrate with all other RI programming in the same target areas.
The FSL Program Manager will report to the Program Director. The position will be based in Longechok, with regular visits to project areas within Longechok County.
Responsibilities:
• Strategically guide the project, providing strong leadership and ensuring technically sound decision-making processes
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL): in consultation with the Area Coordinator ensure that there is effective monitoring system in place to track activities, budget allocation and financial expenditures
• Ensure that appropriate management practices are being used in project implementation and the Monitoring and Evaluation systems are being used to provide timely management information
• Lead planning and implementation of projects and oversees all aspects programmatic, financial, administrative, personnel management
• People management: supervise the project staff and provide technical oversight during detailed planning and implementation
• Responsible for the annual work plans preparation, identifying external technical support needs
• Ensure all project resources are being used efficiently, effectively and transparently towards meeting project objectives
• Organize program meetings with project staff to follow-up on project progress and recommends as required corrective measures to address gaps.
• Resource mobilization and program development
• Representation, liaison and coordination
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in agronomy, agriculture economics, agribusiness, food security and community development, with 4 years’ experience implementing GFD and FSL projects in a resilience setting. or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Project management experience in WFP GFD is preferred.
• Experience integrating WFP with other programs is highly desirable.
• Experience contributing to the development of technical proposals.
• MEAL skills and experience preferred.
• Experience with WFP LESS and reporting systems is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated skills in program planning, implementation and monitoring
• Supervisory, training delivery and teamwork abilities
We would like to share Relief International’s Values with you:
We uphold the Humanitarian Principles: humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and operational independence. We affirmatively engage the most vulnerable communities. We value:
• Inclusiveness
• Transparency and Accountability
• Agility and Innovation
• Collaboration
• Sustainability
About Relief International.
Relief International (RI) is a leading nonprofit organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach — which we call the RI Way—emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International includes the four members of the RI Alliance in the USA, UK, France, and Belgium. Under our alliance agreement, we operate under a single, shared management structure with one CEO and one Board of Directors.
About our Programs.
RI is active in 16 countries around the world, including some of the most fragile: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen. Often, RI is the only organization providing assistance to highly vulnerable communities.
RI employs 7,000+ staff and auxiliary workers
97% of staff are in-country nationals
We only have some 90 ex-pat staff out of 7,000+
RI spent $125 million in 2019 on our programs.
RI invests in four broad program sectors: Economic Opportunity, Education, Health, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). We design our programs to incorporate The RI Way: local participation, integrated programming, the development of civic skills, and partnerships including with local NGOs, governments, and the private sector.
RI supports solutions that reinforce and improve upon existing in-country systems. Where such systems do not exist or are chronically underperforming, RI’s crisis response lays the foundation for long-term, sustainable change.
